indigente
needy ; poverty-stricken ; impecunious ; indigent ; destitute ; vagrant ; bag lady ; pauper ; shopping-bag lady ; bagwoman ; bagman ; necessitous.
By definition, these are benefits, often in cash, which the state has decided are required by various needy categories of its citizens.
The British Museum Reading Room is filled with cranks, hacks, poverty-stricken scholars who cherish their hobby.
Despite its impecunious state and lack of a home until 1928, the UK Library Association remained confident about the future of libraries and librarianship.
These indigents, known to the public as tramps & skid row winos, are very visible & more likely to be arrested for drunkenness & other petty offenses than a person with a permanent home.
The clarity of his drawings contrasts sharply with the total alienation in which he lived as a destitute mental patient with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.
This paper outlines the problems caused by vagrants who use public libraries as a refuge.
A sample of New York City's vagrant females were interviewed in the main bag lady territory in Manhattan.
Gavarni's illustrations of waifs, paupers, and beggars were later published separately, with captions added by the artist.
Shopping-bag ladies do not overtly beg, but they do not refuse what is offered.
I've always been afraid of somehow winding up as a bagwoman in the streets.
His hand went to the pistol in his belt as he turned and found a ragged, filthy bagman looking up at him from beneath a blanket of newspapers.
The design of this institution is, as far as their funds will admit, to prevent mendicity, and to relieve beggars, and especially other necessitous poor.
albergue para indigentes
poorhouse
The article 'The public library - paperback palace or poorhouse?' discusses the factors which have caused South African public libraries to review their paperback purchasing policies.
indigentes, los
destitute, the
The author examines 17th-18th-c. writings on the treatment of the destitute.
